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@met @twine WILLIAM LAUVER, OF PERU MILLS, PENNSYLVANIA.

Letters Patent No. 91,456, dated J'Lmc 15, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-POWER.

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The Schedule referred tc in these Letters Patent Aand. making part of the same.

To all/11.01.0111. 'it mwy concern Be it known that I, 'WILLIAM LAUVER, of Peru Mills, in the county of J nniata,.and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Horse-V n of the frame, and O O C2 are six parallel cross-beams,

nesting upon and framed to the bed-pieces, for the purpose of supporting the shafts and wheels.

A is the motive-Wheel, being a horizontal mitrewheel, supported upon -a vertical spindle, a, stepped in the cross-piece G3. Y

D is a large hollow shaft, bearing in the beams (l2 0, and supporting at one end a vertical mitre-wheel, E, gearing with and rotated by the wheel A, and at the other, a vertical iuternalgear-wheel, F.

G is a short shaft, bearing in the beams C4 C, and supporting a mitre-wheel, H, which also gears with and is rotated by the wheel A, of course in a direction opposite to that of wheel E'. The wheels E H are of equal size. i

Fixed to the inner end of shaft G, is an arm, I, which bears a' planet-wheeh J, atone end, and a connterbalauce, K,.at the other, the wheel J working in connection with the internal gear of wheel F, andi Y with a small spur-wheel, L, on the lend of along shaft,

m. The latter shaft extends through the hollow shaft D, and carries at `its opposite end an arm, M, which ,Supports a planet-wheel, N, and a counterbalance, K. This planet-wheel operates in connection with an in, ternal cog-rim, c, upon the wheel E, and also with a small spur-wheel, n, iixed to a short shaft, Q, supand bearing the workingllie operation is as follows: The wheel A being put in motion, actuates the wheel E, and through it,'the shaft D and the wheel F, in

one direction, and the wheel H in the other. The shaft of the latter wheel carries the planet-wheel J round in a direction opposite to that of the wheel F, thus` doubling the rapidity of its movement along the cog-rim of wheel E, and proportionately increasing the velocity of the small central shaft m, which it puts in motion.

The speed of shaft m having been thus raised, it is applied to increase the rapidity of the movement of the other planet-wheel N along the cog-rim e. At the same time, the wheel N moves in a. direction opposite to the direction of motion of wheel E, with which it gears, so that thereby its moti'on is proportionately increased, in the saine manner that the motion of wheel J was accelerated by the motion of shaft G, as above described.

The speed of the planet-wheel N being thus raised to a high degree, it is transmitted (still further multiplied) through the small spur-wheel n to shaft Q and the working-pulley?. p

When the several parts are in the relative proportions shown in the drawings, I obtain about one hunf dred and twenty revolutions of the pulley P, to ne of the motive-wheel A. The proportions may, of course, be varied at pleasure.

The whole machine is exceedingly compact, occuy pying a space which is nearly covered by the horizontal wheel A.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The counterbalance K or K', applied in connection with a sun-and-planet wheel, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combina-tion and arrangement of the horizontal wheel A, vertical mitrewheels E H, sun-andpianet wheels F J L, and E cN n, shafts G m Q, and arms I M, all constructed, combined, and adapted to operate in connection with each other, in the manner and for the purposes set forth.

To the above specification of my improvement, I have set my hand, this 30th day of March, 1869.

- WILLIAM LAUVIER. Witnesses:

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